By ELIZABETH FEIZKHAH

NORTH AMERICA

QUEBEC CITY
Critics in the 1870s found Auguste Rodin's sculptures so realistic they accused him of cheating: his Age of Bronze, they said, could only have been molded on the body of a living man. No such complaint was leveled at Rodin's 1897 statue of Honore de Balzac; instead the dressing-gown-shrouded figure with its oversized head (Rodin envisioned the novelist rising in the middle of the night to jot down an idea) was pilloried as ludicrously abstract, "an obese monstrosity." These once controversial works form the stylistic bookends of a sweeping survey of Rodin's oeuvre at the Musee du Quebec. The more than 130 works on show range from sculptures--including such celebrated works as The Thinker and The Kiss--to paintings, drawings, and photographs of Rodin's studio and gardens. Through Sept. 6; tickets are sold for specific dates and times.

EUROPE

ANTWERP
Soccer fans who missed out on tickets to July 12's World Cup final in Paris (now all but unobtainable despite official prices of more than $2,000) should hotfoot it to Hans Burie's chocolate shop in Korte Gasthuisstraat. There, for $5 apiece, they'll find all the "tickets" they can eat--though none that will pass muster with an alert gatekeeper. Every four years Burie turns his shop over to several weeks of exuberant World Cup worship, with souvenir chocolate tickets, balls, boots, miniature Cups, statuettes of star players, and--this year--Eiffel Towers.

GENT
Five bald guys living in a store window are bound to attract attention--which is just what Neil Thomas and his collaborators hope to do when they set up their Urban Dream Capsule in a vacant shopping arcade in the Belgian city on July 11. During the 16-day performance work, a highlight of the Gent International Street Theater Festival July 18-27, the zany crew will spend all but their most private moments in full view of passers-by. A video link will let them chat with shoppers in the windows of a Melbourne, Australia, department store, and they plan to post mini-movies of their overexposed days on the Internet (no address was available at press time). The Street Theater Festival is part of an annual folk festival that includes music, theater, puppetry and art installations. Most events are free.

ASIA

HONG KONG
In July 1973, one month before the film Enter the Dragon made him an international martial-arts superstar, Bruce Lee--whose kung fu kicks and karate chops were so fast movie cameras needed special film to record them--died in Hong Kong at the age of 33. Now, 25 years later, the city where Lee grew up has its first public memorial to the Chinese-American actor: the Bruce Lee Cafe in Robinson Road. Surrounded by martial-arts movie memorabilia, including the fighting sticks Lee used in 1972's Way of the Dragon, owner Jon Benn, a former actor who played a mafia boss in the film, serves up Fish of Fury, Satay of the Dragon, Chop Chop Lamb Chop, and fond reminiscences of Lee. Tel.+81 2525 3977.